In the latest ChinaFile conversation, David Wertime asks the question: How Would Facing Its Past Change China’s Future? Several prominent China commentators are in general consensus is that an official accounting of Tiananmen is...
Read MoreFormer mayor of Beijing Chen Xitong died on Sunday morning, but news of his death did not emerge until two days later, on the 24th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown which he oversaw. From South China Morning Post: Chen...
Read MoreThe Guardian’s Jonathan Kaiman talks to residents of some of China’s hundreds of “cancer villages” about the obstacles to their efforts to seek redress: Yanglingang residents count their home as one of...
Read MoreAs bilateral talks between U.S President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping are scheduled to take place at Sunnylands, California on Friday, millions of high school seniors in China will sit for a...
Read MoreAs of June 4, the following search terms are blocked on Sina Weibo (not including the “search for user” function). Tiananmen Continued: Terms related to the anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre, known in Chinese simply as...
Read MoreWhile public commemorations of the military crackdown on June 4, 1989 were strictly banned inside China, an estimated 150,000 people gathered for a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong, despite heavy rains. From Reuters: In Hong Kong,...
Read MoreThe New York Times’ Tim Arango and Clifford Krauss report that, ten years after the U.S.-led invasion, China is buying up almost half of Iraq’s oil output, taking 1.5 million of a total 3.5 million barrels per day....
Read MoreWith China’s film market poised to surpass America’s as the world’s largest, efforts to please Chinese audiences have become standard protocol for Hollywood filmmakers. Rory Carroll reports at The Guardian:...
Read MoreThe form for readers to submit tips on blocked keywords will be available at the bottom of all future English Sensitive Words posts. The form itself is in Chinese. In April 2011, CDT Chinese began tracking keywords blocked from...
Read MoreIn partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, “Propaganda Past” is now featured in our Censorship Vault series. All translations in this series are by Rogier Creemers. New series: Propaganda Past One of my...
Read MoreAs China prepares to construct its own space laboratory next year, a crew of three Chinese astronauts is preparing to blast off in the Shenzhou X spacecraft for a preliminary mission this month. From the South China Morning...
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal reports that four Chinese companies are considering IPOs on U.S. stock exchanges, possibly reopening a market that has been shut since 2011 amid concerns over accounting irregularities and fraud: Travel...
Read MoreChina urged North Korea to cease its nuclear and missile tests during a meeting with a military envoy in Beijing last month, a source tells Reuters, who described the meeting as “terse:” Beijing tried to convince...
Read MoreAs Chinese President Xi Jinping prepares to meet with American counterpart Barack Obama in California this week, The Wall Street Journal’s Jeremy Page and Colleen Nelson report that the summit reflects China’s desire...
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